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Turkmenistan

 

            Turkmenistan is a small country with 4,603,244 people. Currently, the life expectancy is 61 years.
             The ethnicity of the Turkmen (the nationality) is made up of Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1%. 89% of Turkmenistan is Muslim (the branch is called Al-Fatiha. Eastern Orthodox makes up the other 11%.
             The spoken languages are Turkmen 72%, Russian12%, Uzbek9%, and other 7%.
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             Turkmenistan continues to send supplies to the Taliban. The United States has issued a travel warning to the area, and Bush has promised an aid package of 295 million dollars to help Afghan refugees entering Turkmenistan.
             Turkmenistan has stated they are definitely against terrorism. They are unsure about helping the US in an attack on Afghanistan. The have declared that their airspace may only be used for humanitarian flights. They still show a level of support for the Taliban as they continue to send in supplies and have kept the border between the two countries open. Turkmenistan feels great pressure from the Islam nation and is influenced by Russia.
            


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1. The Country of Turkministan

... is a very small but important part of the culture is the Baha'i faith it is still part of the daily lives of some in Turkmenistan but it was one of the large religions even before the soviet rule. The two largest religious conflicts were the one previously stated about the soviet ... rule and all of the banning's and preventions of most religions in Turkmenistan, and the other is the fight between the Shia and the Sunni (the two branches of the Islamic culture). The Shia Sunni clash consists of ... 2006, his death. There was actually a law that said he was to be president for life the c...

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2. Natural Energy Resources in Turkey

... the Caspian hydrocarbon deposits. By the end of the first post-Soviet decade, it was still too early to make firm predictions, but it was estimated that Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan together contained in the range of 16.5 to 32 billion barrels of proven oil reserves and around 166 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Although exploration is still at an ... as many initiatives including Trans Caspian Gas project were kind of forced out of agenda by Russia. But the new president Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow appears ambivalent about Russia's dominant position in Turkmenistan. Though...

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3. Turmenistan

... political right. There is no freedom of assembly, no opportunity for public debate and no political opportunities. Not to mention the intimidating authority existence of a Soviet-style, secret police. Turkmenistan is also one of the poorest of the former Soviet republics, due to the bad condition that it's people are subjected to. Up until the U.S. Government intervened using force, President ... Niyazov had held many high-profiled polical prisoners. Among these prisoners, there was Khaja-Makhamendov, a leader of the banned Party of Democratic Development of Turkmenistan. Khaja-Makhamend...

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4. The Evolution of Free Speech

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5. Afghanistan

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6. Gender Inequality in Central Asian Region

... Asia- Table 1: Women in Governments of Central Asian States At all levels percent, 1998 At ministerial level percent, 1998 At sub-ministerial Level percent, 1998 Kazakhstan 2.3 5.0 1.5 Uzbekistan 5.3 3.3 12.5 Kyrgyzstan 3.4 4.3 2.8 Tajikistan 6.2 6.5 6.1 Turkmenistan 2.5 4.0 0.0 Source: Human Development Repon 2000, UNDP, New York 2000. Oxford University Press, pp. 265-266. Women at all levels of government in Central Asia compose only about 4 per cent. There ... constitute 35 per cent of the heads in the NGOs, compared with only 3 per cent of parliamentarians. The most numerous women's...

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8. Global Human Trafficking

... of ownership of them my men can be linked back to the pattern where a cluster of tier three countries can be found in the middle east; Saudi Arabia, Iran and Turkmenistan. High death rates in adult populations from diseases such as HIV/Aids can also make populations vulnerable to be targeted by traffickers. These high death rates more often than not ... ...

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9. Service Contract Arrangement

... major oil and natural gas producing countries. Venezuela, Kuwait and Iran signed their first of such contracts in 1991, 1992 and 1995, respectively. More recently Iraq, Mexico, Bolivia, Ecuador and Turkmenistan have signed new service contracts, or have shown more interest in adopting variations of service-type contracts rather than production sharing contracts in order to explore and develop their oil ... ...

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